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Project Gutenberg<p>The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Do Without</p><p>Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space.</p><p>By Margot Lee Shetterly, Illustrations by Richie Pope (from the archives)</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/the-woman-the-mercury-astronauts-couldnt-do-without-236255/?utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nautilus-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/the-woman-the-mercur</span><span class="invisible">y-astronauts-couldnt-do-without-236255/?utm_campaign=website&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=nautilus-newsletter</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to botanist &amp; photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!</p><p>Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father &amp; received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cyanotype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyanotype</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Botany</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a>. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, &amp; purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomer</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Mercury, final prompt for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printerSolstice2425</span></a>, made me think of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alchemy</span></a>. It is an element the alchemists favoured &amp; felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western &amp; Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).</p><p>This is my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> portrait of an <a href="https://spore.social/tags/alchemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alchemist</span></a> known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Her Maths Story<p>“Since my goal was to solve a problem no one had ever solved before, it required a creative and flexible approach, one that emphasized the exploration, experimentation, and steady refinement of ideas. But perhaps the most important lesson I learned was that there is no single “correct” way to be a mathematician.” - Katy Micek</p><p>➡️ Find the full story at <a href="https://hermathsstory.eu/catherine-micek/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hermathsstory.eu/catherine-mic</span><span class="invisible">ek/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WomenInMaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInMaths</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HerMathsStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HerMathsStory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AppliedMathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppliedMathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Seeing dark matter in the Andromeda galaxy </p><p>By Vera Rubin, from the archives, via @physicstoday</p><p>This is a story of why and how Kent Ford and I studied the orbital velocities of stars in the Andromeda galaxy 40 years ago. Our study was influential in the later conclusion that most of the matter in the universe is dark.</p><p><a href="https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/59/12/8/387114/Seeing-dark-matter-in-the-Andromeda-galaxy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/59/12/8/387114/Seeing-dark-matter-in-the-Andromeda-galaxy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a></p>
Esther Plomp<p>What a week! This week was Open Data Day <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ODD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ODD</span></a>. </p><p>On Tuesday the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@UARC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UARC</span></a></span> organised an event on Open Data / Bring your own data, for which slides are available here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14962952" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1496295</span><span class="invisible">2</span></a></p><p>On Thursday I coorganised a Fireside chat with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@turingway" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>turingway</span></a></span> on "Nurturing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> in Challenging Economic and Political times". A recording to follow! </p><p>On Friday I participated in an event on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/WomenInStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInStem</span></a> and I won a Tshirt!</p>
Margaret J. Low<p>Happy <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a>. Today, our predominantly female crew led the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RoyalInstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalInstitution</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Engineering</span></a> Masterclass at <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WMGwarwick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WMGwarwick</span></a> </p><p>We explored <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> &amp; Assembly creating beautifully framed patterns using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@turtlestitch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>turtlestitch</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IWD25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD25</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IWD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD2025</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Engineering</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WMGoutreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WMGoutreach</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UniOfWarwick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniOfWarwick</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>My ongoing series of portraits of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> for <a href="https://spore.social/tags/iwd2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iwd2025</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For <a href="https://spore.social/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a> a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/IWD2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD2025</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientists</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciArt</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Noodlemaz<p>Oh hey it's <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a> is it</p><p>Do something<br>Don't go around wishing women in your life 'happy' whatever, please.</p><p>Men are killing women every three days in the UK.<br>What are we doing about it? Seemingly, not much.</p><p>Take action.<br><a href="https://noodlemaz.wordpress.com/2021/03/08/international-womens-day-action/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">noodlemaz.wordpress.com/2021/0</span><span class="invisible">3/08/international-womens-day-action/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/WomensMarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensMarch</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>men</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/men" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>men</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/genderpaygap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderpaygap</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/EndGenderBasedViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndGenderBasedViolence</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/femicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>femicide</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/violenceAgainstWomenAndGirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violenceAgainstWomenAndGirls</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/EVAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EVAW</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/smashThePatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smashThePatriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/womeninstem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninstem</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Celebrating Women’s History Month </p><p>Celebrate Women’s History Month with JSTOR Daily. We hope you’ll find the stories below a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.</p><p>By: The Editors </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/womens-history-month-editors-picks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/womens-history</span><span class="invisible">-month-editors-picks/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomensDay2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensDay2025</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>For the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printerSolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printerSolstice2425</span></a> prompt silicon my <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> of brilliant trailblazing US <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geologist</span></a> &amp; prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) who championed women’s education, &amp; used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic rocks she called aporhyolite (implying a change in rhyolite, a silica rich igneous rock, as in her 🧵1/n</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a></p>
Jeffrey Yost<p>In the Twin Cities, please join us TODAY at 5pm (Humphrey Room 105) for a free public lecture by U. of Illinois' standout Prof. of Information Sciences Anita Say Chan, her talk: "Predatory Data." </p><p>Co-hosted by UMN CBI for Computing, Information &amp; Culture; &amp; Ctr for Women, Gender &amp; Public Policy. I will give a short framing talk. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/anthropology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anthropology</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sociology</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciences.social/@commodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>commodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genderstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderstudies</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistory</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenintech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenintech</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninstem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninstem</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Ele Willoughby, PhD<p>Since silicon is a common element in the crust, for the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printersolstice2425" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printersolstice2425</span></a> prompt silicon I’m making a portrait of trailblazing geologist Florence Bascom (1862-1945), complete with geological cross sections and thin sections from her publications.<br>🧵1/2</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/wip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wip</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/linocut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linocut</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/printmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printmaking</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histsci</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/womenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mineralogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mineralogy</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geologist</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/FlorenceBascom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlorenceBascom</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnTheDay</span></a>, 6 Mar 1906, Nora Stanton Blatch was admitted to the American Association of Civil Engineers. The first woman, she was allowed junior status but still denied full membership.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life</p><p>A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.</p><p>By Kristina Armitage</p><p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/years-after-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/years-after</span><span class="invisible">-the-early-death-of-a-math-genius-her-ideas-gain-new-life-20250303/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>Lucy Evelyn Cheesman: the woman who walked.</p><p>Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969), OBE, was an English entomologist best known for her extensive solo expeditions in the South West Pacific. Over the course of her trips, she collected around 70,000 specimens of insects, plants and other animals for the Natural History Museum.</p><p>By Kerry Lotzof</p><p><a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lucy-evelyn-cheesman.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nhm.ac.uk/discover/lucy-evelyn</span><span class="invisible">-cheesman.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/explorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>explorers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>The female explorers who braved the wilderness but were overlooked by the history books</p><p>By Sarah Lonsdale</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/the-female-explorers-who-braved-the-wilderness-but-were-overlooked-by-the-history-books-249742" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/the-female</span><span class="invisible">-explorers-who-braved-the-wilderness-but-were-overlooked-by-the-history-books-249742</span></a></p><p>Books by Mina Benson Hubbard at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1422" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/14</span><span class="invisible">22</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/explorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>explorers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninStem</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>Tu Youyou, a Chinese medical researcher, played a vital role in discovering artemisinin, the most powerful antimalarial drug therapy available today. </p><p>She found a key hint in a 4th-century BC medical text, which she combined with the insight that conventional techniques for extracting medicine from herbs might destroy the active ingredient.<br><a href="https://buff.ly/wTP5qXa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/wTP5qXa</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomenInStem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInStem</span></a> 🧪 🔭</p>
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